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Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.

~Georges Bataille

Topics: Above Alone Aspect Crime Elude Fact Far Hidden Hides Human Human Species Most Secret Species Terrifying Things Those Us Which

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Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.

~Georges Bataille

Topics: Always Apparent Cohesion Ecstasy Ecstatic Finds Grandeur Life Love Only Place Reality Taken Without

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The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

~Georges Bataille

Topics: About Between Decisive Essence Evil Good Good And Evil Human Human Life Life Light Look Morality Move Opposition Origin Questioning Use

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Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

~Georges Bataille

Topics: Become Delightful Fruit Got Happiness Must Once Only Pleasure Poison Starts Tainted Worm

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Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else - an animal's incomplete compared to a person... and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary.

~Georges Bataille

Topics: Animal Compared Complete Each Else God Imaginary Incomplete Only Person Someone Us Who

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

~Georges Bataille

Topics: Distant Love Most Naturally Possibility

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Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.

~Georges Bataille

Topics: Nothing Other Production Sacred Sacrifice Than Things

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I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.

~Georges Bataille

Topics: Believe Contradiction Face Only Truth Violent I Believe I Believe That

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Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

~Georges Bataille

Topics: Around Despair Dreams Give How Intellectual Knowing Like Madmen Matter Neither Nor Only Prisons Rage Results Them Vent Violence Wander Wants Weakness Whether

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Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.

~Georges Bataille

Topics: Death Even Life

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Writer

Born: September 16th, 1897

Died: July 9th, 1962

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